0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Darkes Forest · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Darkes Forest
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every single home in Darkes Forest owns at least one car, making the area heavily reliant on private vehicles. This is a place where car ownership is the norm and public transport is virtually non-existent, with a striking 34.9% of workers operating from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high here, with 42.3% of homes having two vehicles and 38.5% owning four or more. Not a single home in the area is without a motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales rate of 9.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Darkes Forest splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 4 or more (36%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far more common here than across Australia, with 34.9% of the workforce doing so. For those who do travel, 50.8% drive themselves, while no one uses public transport to get to work.
34.9% ▲ +354.0%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.7%
- 2016: 16.9%
- 2021: 34.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of employed people who got to work by train, bus, ferry or tram/light rail as their only method of travel on census day.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
There are no public transport stops or routes in the area, leaving the local transport access far below the New South Wales figure.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.00
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
0.0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled weekly public-transport departures from stops in the area, per 1,000 residents — how often transit actually runs, not just whether a stop exists (GTFS schedules for a representative week; population from the 2021 Census).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
The drive time to the city is about 56 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.
56
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
Free-flow driving time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to its state/territory capital city centre, along the OpenStreetMap road network (Valhalla). Excludes live traffic.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
- Public transport timetables (GTFS) — State & territory transport agencies, 2026 (CC BY 4.0 (WA: custom PTA licence)).
- Road & path network (OpenStreetMap, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0).
More for Darkes Forest
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Darkes Forest [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11210/darkes-forest/topic/transport